Clip for locomotive-springs



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W. EVANS.

CLIP FOR LOOOMOTIVE SPRINGS.

No. 325,202. Patented Aug. 25, 1885. FIG] FIGA:

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W. EVANS.

CLIP FOR LOOOMOTIVE SPRINGS.

Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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VILLIAM EVANS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PEJNSYLVANIA.

CLIP FOR. LOCOMOTIVE-SPRINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 325,202, dated August 25, 1885.

Application filed August 9, 1884. (No model.)

To (LZZ/ whom it may concern: been passed through the rolls. Fig. 2 is an Bcit known that l, \V1LLIAMEVANs,a ciliend view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side view of zen of the United States, residing at Philaa clip, B, after it has been cut from the bar A, delphia, in the county of Philadelphia and flanged onitslower surface, and laid upon the State-oi" Pennsylvania, have invented a new end O of a locomotive-spring plate ready for and useful improvement in Clips for forming heating and welding. Fig. 1 is an end view Hook-Back Ends for LocomotiveSprings, of of the clip B. 5 is an end view of the which the following is a specification. clip B and spring U in connection. Fig. -6 is In forming hook-back ends for springs it a longitudinal section through a finished has been customaryheretofore to weld a square spring-plate end. Fig. 7 is a side view of one bar of steel or iron onto a plate, of which the end of the series of plates composing the clip is made, a short distance from one edge spring, with the link E in its position 111 the say, an inch, to allow metal for welding--to recess 0. Fig. 8 is an end view of the same. form one flange, then to reheat and bend the Like letters of reference in all the figures opposite parallel edge upward for the other indicate the same parts. flange, thus making a recessed space between A heated billet of steel or iron is at first the two flanges for the reception of the end passed through a pair or series of rolls until 01" a confining-bar, heat again, and weld the it assumes the shape shown in Figs. 1 and 2, clip to the end of a spring-plate, thus making with the scarf (0 at one side and the parallel the process laborious and expensive. flanges b 1) extending above the surface of the To overcome theseditllculties and form clips plate at right angles thereto and lengthwise cheaply and expeditiously is the object of my of the bar. The clips B are cut from said bar invention; and the'invention consists in passat the points where the dotted lines 00 .10 cross ing through a pair or series of rolls a billet of its face, as seen in Fig. 1. The scarf then iron or steel with the scarf at one side, for the becomes the inner end of the clip. The flanges purpose of furnishing material tor welding, 11 l) on the surface of the clip serve to form a and two parallel flanges, that extend above space, c,i'or the reception of an end of thelink the upper surface of the plate at right angles E. (Shown clearlyin Figs? and S.) Theflange thereto and lengthwise of the bar, whereby a b may be omitted in the rolling of the bar A, recessed space is formed on said upper snrin which case it is dragged up between the face of the bar. The object of this recessed or upper and lower dies of a punching-press. depressed space is to receive one end of a con- The welding-flanges c c on the edges of the fining link or shackle when a clip is cut of lowersurfaceof theclipsB are dragged thereon suitable width from the length of the rolled in the same manner and by similar dies as bar, and welded by swagingdies to the end shown and described in an invention of mine. of the upper plate of a series that form the for clips for the ends of locomotivesprings sprin and in dies for forming the same, for which I The invention also consists in cutting clips have filed an application for Letters Patent on from said rolled bar, and at the same operathe 29th day of July, 188 Serial N 0. 139,114. tion dragging the welding-flanges on the Aparticulardescription ofthe diesand their lower surface of the plate by means of the operation is deemed unnecessary in specificacombination of the upper and lower dies of a tion. After the clip has been cut from the bar punching-press. By rolling the bar in a conby the dies, I place it upon one end of a locotinuous piece the clips cut therefrom are unimotive-spring plate,(), the scarl'end a inward, 9 5 form and easily welded, besides cheapening and the welding-flanges c 0 overlapping the the cost of construction at least twenty per edges of the spring-plate 0, heat the united centum over the old method. pieces, and weld together, thus forming what In the accompanying drawingsthat make a is known as a hook-back spring end. part of this specification, Figure 1 is a face Clips cut from the bar A are uniform in out- IOO view of the upper surl'ace of a bar of steel or line, and when welded to the end of the springiron, A, from which clips are out after it has plate a much better product is obtained than by the method now in use besides greatly cheapening the cost of production.

What 1 claim as my invention is 1. The bar A,0f Which to cut clips for form- 5 ing ends of locomotive hook-back springs,

having the recess 0 and flanges I) 1/ rolled Ihereon,substantially as described.

2. The clip B, having the recessed space a, flanges I) b, and the Welding-flanges 0 0, sub stantially as shown.

WILLIAM EVANS.

Vitnesses:

THOMAS J. BEWLEY J. R. MASSEY. 

